Name: Matt Shortsleeve
Title: Senior Manager
Company: Mercury Solar Systems
Location: Waltham, MA
College: Undergraduate - Northeastern University
Family: Married with two children
First job in current field: Advisory board for North Shore Innoventures, an advisory and mentoring service provider to early stage Clean-tech companies.
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Mercury Solar develops, designs, builds, and provides financial services for commercial/industrial and large scale solar photovoltaic projects. We help business owners, non-profits, and large organizations maximize their return on investment in solar energy systems.
Hobbies: Outdoors activities of all types
Keys to success: Hire well, support better, don't hesitate, and always do the right thing.
Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Generally people who go beyond the call of duty for the betterment of the team, community, and those without a voice. Two in particular: Jeff Cohen, EOS Climate - single handedly created a US-wide decommissioning of Freon gas; Bill Clinton for the Clinton Global Initiative;
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Perhaps elected office.